A massive 7.7 earthquake originating in Myanmar has collapsed buildings over 600 miles away in Bangkok, Thailand ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...

This earthquake was the result of a strike-slip fault movement along the Sagaing Fault line, which runs north to south within ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...